Seluini 'Akau'ola SM (Tonga)
Seluini is currently a Parish Priest at St Anne's parish, Nuku'alofa, Tonga. His background is in Christian ethics/moral theology. Described as 'a political animal', he was heavily involved with counselling those directly involved with the 2000 coup in Fiji.
Keiti Ann Kanongata'a (Tonga)
'I am a Tongan, born and bred in Tonga. A member of the Sisters of Our Lady of Nazareth (of the Pacific) for 34 year, I have a doctorate in Missiology from the Pontifical University of Urbaniana, Rome. I began as a primary school teacher and now I am like a "jack of all trades". I was a Superior General for six years and was on the leadership team for 12 years. Currently, I am founding the new Lilo'iTafa'anga Theological Institute in the Diocese of Tonga and Niue.'
Mariska Kua RSM (PNG)
Mariska was elected the Leader of the Sisters of Mercy in 2003. This year is her last in that formal leadership role. Prior to that she was a primary school teacher and 'enjoyed it'.
Neles Tebay (West Papua)
Fr Neles Tebay is a Vicar General in the Diocese of Jayapura, West Papua, and a Professor at the Fajar Timur School of Philosophy and Theology, in Jayapura.
From 1998 to 2000 he worked as a journalist for the Jakarta Post (an English-language daily published in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta). He has a MA in Pastoral Studies at the East Asian Pastoral Institute-Ateneo de Manila University, in Manila, Philippines, (1997) and as awarded his PhD in Missiology from the Pontifical Urban University in Rome (March 2006).
He is the author of West Papua: The struggle for peace with justice, published by the Catholic Institute for International Relations/CIIR, London (2005) and Interfaith Endeavours for Peace in West Papua published by the Missio in Aachen, Germany (2006).
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